Where in the world is Tie Flume?!

Since we have family that live in Dayton, the Big Horns are right in the middle - and make a great place to meet up! My mom, Aimee and her kids, Kandace and the two oldest, and Lauren and I met up at Bear Lodge to do some hiking! Our plan was to go to Tie Flume. Before hiking we had to energize ourselves with a yummy lunch, and then we were off - so we thought! We drove to a spot were we thought would be a good place to start our hike and the sign said Tie Flume 1/4 (we took that as 1/4 mile). We started walking - when we had planned this we thought we would be on a hiking trail, but we were just on a dirt road! So we were walking, and walking! This 1/4 of a mile was starting to get pretty long, but we continued! After a while Triff and Lauren were not diggin the whole walking thing - and at this point Jaxon, Kysar, and Kynlee were so far ahead that we couldn't see them. We decided my mom would take Triff, Lauren, and Kaya back to the truck and Kandace, Aimee and I would go find the boys and Kynlee! Aimee and I thought that we could handle running up hill. Ha. Having just watched Olympics I felt that it might have given me an advantage, because I really started to feel like I was a fast runner, swimmer, you get my point! Ha. It did not help me at all! We did however catch up to the boys by calling them with our really loud voices!! As we started walking back to the truck we decided that it was no 1/4 mile to Tie Flume! When we got back, we realised the sign was saying it was 1/4 mile to the Tie Flume campground. My mom was determined to find this place, and even though everyone else was satisfied with going home, we loaded up in the truck and tried to find Tie Flume.

We drove, and as we drove we came upon this guy. I love moose, but what would we have done if we were still walking! Yikes! We were so grateful that we turned around when we did!

 

 The riding arraingements while trying to find Tie Flume.

 The kids had so much fun back here!

 So we are still driving, and no sign of Tie Flume. We even saw a guy on a 4-wheeler, and he didn't know a thing about Tie Flume, except for the campground which he tried to re-direct us to! This was not a good sign that this guy did know where it was! We drove a little farther, and then turned around! Apparently we don't know where we are going. We did pull off into an area that had some really old cabins. (To which Aimee told the kids, these where the cabins that the people stayed in while they built Tie Flume! Good one Aimee!)

On our way back we did see this guy again! Still very thankful to be in the truck instead of walking!

So we never found Tie Flume, but we had a fun time trying to find it!